Thank goodness we made those leaps in microprocessor design and software back in the 1980s. So there's no need for further incremental improvements.

Typed on my $2500 IBM PC, with 640K of memory. Using MSDOS.

PBS is primarily (85%) privately funded. It will continue to produce shows like Masterpiece, Nova, Frontline, and Sesame Street and people in places like Boston or Philadelphia will continue to benefit from them.

What public funding does is give viewers in poorer, more rural areas access to the same information that wealthy cities enjoy. It pays for access for people who don't have it.

By opting out, Arkansas public broadcasting saves 2.5 million dollars in dues, sure. But it loses access to about $300 million dollars in privately funded programming annually.

I wish I could say I'm surprised.

However, this has been a consistent pattern that goes back to the 1930s and I wouldn't raise an eyebrow if you corected that to the 1830s. Companies know that you make the most money by selling to both sides.

Export controls don't work this way. There is no requirement for a conspiracy and you can be held liable for looking the other way or lack of care.

The power of advertising.

The Americans seem to have a different definition.
For example, they've had tariffs on Canadian soft wood lumber for decades due to the difference in how the lumber industry works in the 2 nations. America mostly gets its lumber from private land, while Canada, or at least BC, gets its lumber from Crown land (Provincial Crown) where the industry pays stumpage, a percent of the value, on the trees.
This they call dumping and while international tribunes have found that it isn't dumping and the tariffs are unfair, those tariffs have been their for decades, sometimes going up and sometimes going down and currently 50%. (Might be 35%)
The softwood lobby in America is strong, stronger then the house building lobby who need BC's lumber as America can't produce enough.
There's other examples of Trump's tariffs that are supposed to be about dumping such as Aluminium.
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... is going. I read that as Phoebe Cates.

Seriously, the idea that we know all the practically important physics there is is the kind of thing only somebody who's never done science or engineering would believe.

How sad. Someone programmed the NPC to espouse the virtues of thinking for yourself and to call itself well rounded.

If I pull the string again, do I get a different line?

> Apple builds the handset, the OS and the store

Remember, when iPhone came out there was no App Store.

That was a separate business that came later, competition was prohibited, and by prohibiting competition rents were extracted.

This is called "illegal tying" in the law.

They're gonna install malware on your device but heaven forbid your website sets the wrong cookie, then they're fining you 6% of annual revenue.

When did East Germany win?

My guess: It's a scam, built on pre-existing 'bot technology.

When it's all done with, the "investors" will have a huge tax write off for their losses plus some neat new data centers, high end servers and utility resources to go into Bitcoin mining big time.

In related news, Netflix turns a failed $11 million investment into a $55 million tax loss.

Bialystock and Bloom have nothing on Netflix.

You bought The Bible?

Then who remains to buy iCrap?